A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few

Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.

We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, expressing yourself without any reservations. This helps the listener to understand more easily.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

In our practice we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

Zen is nothing to get excited about.

To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.

In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect given to a Buddha.

Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God!

Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.

We all struggle in some way or another. So it's on us to work hard, and strive towards a better and healthy life.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

I'm short and to the point.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]